BOOKS FOR “OUR GIRLS.”
THE MAIDENHOOD SERIES.
By Popular Authors.
SEVEN DAUGHTERS.
By Miss A. M. Douglas, Author of “In Trust,” “Stephen Dane,” “Claudia,”“Sydnie Adriance,” “Home Nook,” “Nelly Kennard’s Kingdom.”12mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.
“A charming romance of Girlhood,” full of incident and humor. The “SevenDaughters” are characters which reappear in some of Miss Douglas’ later books. Inthis book they form a delightful group, hovering on the verge of Womanhood, withall the little perplexities of home life and love dreams as incidentals, making a fresh andattractive story.
OUR HELEN.
By Sophie May. 12mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.
“The story is a very attractive one, as free from the sensational and impossible ascould be desired, and at the same time full of interest, and pervaded by the same bright,cheery sunshine that we find in the author’s earlier books. She is to be congratulatedon the success of her essay in a new field of literature, to which she will be warmly welcomedby those who know and admire her ‘Prudy Books.’”—Graphic.
THE ASBURY TWINS.
By Sophie May, Author of “The Doctor’s Daughter,” “Our Helen,” &c. 12mo,cloth, illustrated. $1.50.
“Has the ring of genuine genius, and the sparkle of a gem of the first water. Weread it one cloudy winter day, and it was as good as a Turkish bath, or a three hours’soak in the sunshine.”—Cooperstown Republican.
THAT QUEER GIRL.
By Miss Virginia F. Townsend, Author of “Only Girls,” &c. 12mo, cloth, illustrated.$1.50.
Queer only in being unconventional, brave and frank, an “old-fashioned girl,” andvery sweet and charming. As indicated in the title, is a little out of the common track,and the wooing and the winning are as queer as the heroine. The New HavenRegister says: “Decidedly the best work which has appeared from the pen of MissTownsend.”
RUNNING TO WASTE.
The Story of a Tomboy. By George M. Baker. 16mo, cloth, illustrated.$1.50.
“This book is one of the most entertaining we have read for a long time. It is wellwritten, full of humor, and good humor, and it has not a dull or uninteresting page.It is lively and natural, and overflowing with the best New England character andtraits. There is also a touch of pathos, which always accompanies humor, in the lifeand death of the tomboy’s mother.”—Newburyport Herald.
DAISY TRAVERS;
Or the Girls of Hive Hall. By Adelaide F. Samuels, Author of “Dick andDaisy Stories,” “Dick Travers Abroad,” &c. 16mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.
The story of Hive Hall is full of life and action, and told in the same happystyle which made the earlier life of its heroine so attractive, and caused the Dick andDaisy books to become great favorites with the young. What was said of the youngerbooks can, with equal truth, be said of Daisy grown up.